Voyager

3 hours ago, bubbler86 said:

LOL, had to help you out but I like the name Milltown. 

LOL...I was sitting waiting for my basketball team to come out from their game down at PSU Brandywine. Quick glance at small text on my phone and I saw Milltown instead of Millville. Probably because my 51 year old eyes are getting tired...

3 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

Hey Voyager! Your area is is the Central PA north of Turnpike to 99! Big area, but I felt it would be pretty uniform there. Hope that helps and hope you're doing well!

Thanks! Sorry about getting your name wrong, but I was reading on the quick.

55 minutes ago, 2001kx said:

started at 2" now up to 4" for me on those maps..

Looks like they LOWERED eastern Schuylkill County down a couple of inches.

Milltown, you didn't really mention I-81 north into Schuylkill County.

20 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

I will be in the south western side at 3-5 for that event while voyager in Wspt are digging out once again. This wouldn’t be the first year events have danced around Lanco. I’m rather used to it but will take whatever we can get. I know my climo well. 

I won't be digging. I'll be in Phoenix watching from afar...lol

7 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

I'm gonna end up with a double ice layer snowpack. You can walk on top of the 4-5" pack that's already on the ground without breaking through. 

Toughest ice pack I can ever remember was one back in January 2008. I drove a Mack Granite tri-axle dump truck with a steel dump body back then. The thing weighed 28,000 lbs empty, and when I drove into the quarry where I was supposed to pick up a load, I rode on top of the unplowed ice pack. It was amazing. Needless to say, the quarry folks sent all the trucks back home that morning...

Well, at least I'm scheduled off on Wednesday. Thursday morning may be a different story. Run from Hazleton down through Jim Thorpe to Palmerton, then down to Sands Casino in Bethlehem. The first part from Hazleton to Palmerton is going to be (d)icy...lol

Didn't leave State College until 5:15pm. By that time the precip had started. It was a mix until I got up to I-80, then it was all snow. The interstate completely caved by the time I got to the Lock Haven exit, and it was snow covered all the way to Milton. Fun times...

17 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Dew points are in the teens, so temps should drop when precip begins. Precip type will probably depend on rates.

I'm just hoping the group is ready to load, and we can roll out before the flakes fly.

Just now, Blizzard of 93 said:

I think the answer is in between the 2 maps. Either way, even a minor amount of mixed precip can cause trouble on the roads.

Yup. And I have to be in State College at 3:45pm this afternoon.

3 hours ago, crypt88 said:

Sp,

I agree, the daffodils are beginning their early emergence as it was only a matter of time with the warm and wet conditions that have set in this winter...

Seriously???

Up here, the ground is still frozen pretty good and most garden areas are under at least some patchy areas of snow.

I have to go out to State College tomorrow to pick up local students who attended Thon at PSU and bring them back to Hazleton. Have to be at the Bryce Jordan Center for 3:45pm, so I'm "hoping" the onset of snow is somewhat delayed and I can get in and out and headed back east before the flakes fly...

46 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Dr No headed the wrong way with everything possible the next 10 days. Dont shoot the messenger. Wave 1 south and sheared. Wave 2 sheared south. Wave 3 amped cutter and losing the cold air.....sort of resembles yesterday storm. Thereafter beach weather for the foreseeable future. If it wasnt the Euro I would say meh whatever but this is a few runs in a row now where it essentially tries to put a nail in the coffin of winter 18-19. Again just relaying guidance data. Dr No just took that unicorn, sacrificed it, ripped off it's horn and shoved it where the sun doesnt shine.

Don't fret. I'm going to Phoenix from 2/23 to 3/2. That means it'll be warm here and cold there. Winter will return on 3/3 once I'm back here. Lately, cold weather seems to follow me around like a black cloud.

That cold better get OUT of Arizona before I get there on the 23rd. Nothing worse for me than heading somewhere warm and ending up in a cold pattern while I'm there...

I certainly hope so. 

I've gone from 28 to 30 over the past few hours, but with heavy drizzle, ice is really starting to accrete here. I'm going to have an interesting drive to Mt Airy Casino in Mt Pocono tomorrow morning if we don't get above freezing.

27 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Fzra here and 30f transitioned to 29F and all sleet which now has transitioned to 29F and sleet/snow mix.

14 minutes ago, Ej257 snow lover said:

Heavier returns in allentown now. Was all sleet this morning. Now transitioned to mostly snow. 

That's what's going on up here. Varying intensity means varying p-types...

At 825' here in the Schuylkill County coal region, I have light sleet, so the warm air at the upper levels is already here to the northwest of you guys.

Whatever is falling here(sleet/graupel) is very fine and light, but it really isn't pure snowflakes anymore...

If there was really supposed to be heavy at times snow, as CTP's forecast at one point mentioned, we never saw it in far eastern Schuylkill County. Just woke up and took a 5:00am measurement (it's been snowing since 10:00pm last night) and I only have 1.4 inches from round 2. It's still snow and no mix, but it's quite light, and must have been for most, if not all, of the overnight hours..

The lightest of snow just started here, so round 2 appears to be getting underway in the Skook.

I got a half inch out of phase 1 which all melted off through the day. Now to see what phase 2 gives us up here. Point and click gives me 2-4 overnight and 2-4 tomorrow.

42 minutes ago, Ruin said:

thanks for the welcome as i said in the other forum to me all my life PA was the Mid Atlantic Not sure when it changed lol. but yeah the radar look way more juiced then it was called for and temps being below forecast could be a good front end thump.

Welcome, Ruin. I am the resident warmanista of the forum, largely due to my career as a commercial driver, but I do like snow when it's a big event. That being said, kick off your shoes and spend your time with us. We may not be as active as those in the forum to the south of us, but we are friendlier!

29 minutes ago, bubbler86 said:

Driving down route 70 to BWI this morning and all roads are Pre-treated and powdery white including 195 the feeder road to the airport.  That is always a good sign for the LSV if those southern boys think a cutter is going to give them road issues way down here.  Of course they have to worry about tonight's snow as well.

I don't know if it's a money issue or what, but up here in Schuylkill County, Penndot stopped spraying the roads about 10 years ago. In Allentown city, on the other hand, they spray EVERYTHING. Main roads, side streets, back alleys, you name it. I was surprised when I saw it.

1 hour ago, anthonyweather said:

 

In your head maybe

 

 

 

Yeah really. The difference between TT and Pivotal are like night and day...

2 minutes ago, canderson said:

Between this comment and our Turnpike-living friend discussing his Friday “Fear and Loathing In Central PA” activities I’m officially confused.

Haha...I knew I'd get you guys wondering. I was waiting for someone to ask "who posted this and what did you do to Voyager?"

18 minutes ago, daxx said:

Haha...I had to do a double take at this!  You must be headed west.

Yessir. Going out to Phoenix for a visit with my mom from the 23rd to the 2nd...